Taking Care Of A Baby Bird

i found a Baby bird in the road at my work today, it have fallen 20-25 feet from a nest on the roof, it couldn’t fly, so i kindly picked it up and brought it home with me, it seems to stil has nesting instints since it has been burrowing into the tissue paper in the show box it currently in resideing it, but how else should i aid its survival. what should i feed it. and how often.

My husband works for a frieght company and found 3 mockingbirds in a the back of one the trucks. We are from Texas and its been over 100 degrees for several days straight and those trailors are even hotter. So he brought them home,Afraid the frieght would smash them or the heat would kill them, we purchased the formula from the pet store and have been feeding them every 2 hours for over 2 weeks.

Funny how there seems to be a fair few baby mocking birds in need. We found one by our shop just yesterday on the ground, sort of roaming a bit and chirping. Actually the dogs found him so we called them off and put him back up in the nest. We’ve done this several times now and keep finding him randomly somewhere on the ground. Mom and dad seem to be hanging around and we see them flying by with what seems to be food in their beaks so we haven’t fed him yet. Today I made a makeshift nest with cardboard, fabric and old palm leaves. I made it with taller walls in hopes he won’t fall out of it. We put it up near the original and he’s been there for about 5 hours now (yea little guy.) About a half hour earlier I saw mom with what looked like food in her mouth fly from the roof towards the new nest… I’ll keep checking on him. (I’ve named him Chirper). Hope all is well for you in Afghanistan. I have a good friend over there now. Hope you get home safely and can save more baby birds Thank you for being you. Lori.

I have been Taking them out side every morning so that they can run around and spread their wings. But one of the little fellas made it to a fig bush then to the pecan tree and kept climbing n climbing. That was a few days ago. Every morning I have been going out there to hear for him and i could still hear him, up until yesterday and today. I hope he makes it. I did set out a bird house and some food out for him,just in case. My question is my kids are coming to the realization that once the remaining 2 learn to eat for them selves and fly I am going to let them go. And they are heart broken. When do I know for sure the birds are ready to be set free. I have purchased mealworms, and all sorts of treats. And those lil guys will not eat for them selves. They are no longer eating as often. They are flying some. They seem very strong now. But I don’t want to send them out prematurely. My kids are begging to keeps them as pets, but I can’t do that to them. Help. : ).

We had a feeling it would fall.We watched it go in and out of house and sure enough it fell into the wheelbarrow I placed under the house with a folded tarp inside to pad it’s fall.We tried putting it back without touching it but either it or it’s sibling has fallen and made it to the ground. Mama bird has’nt been seen all day.Don’t know how old they are but they have their wing and tail feathers rest of their body is down covered. Mama bird made it back to nest every few minutes yesterday.Don’t know if it’s time for them to be on their own or if somethings happened to her.Need to know what to feed as this one’s obviously hungry and does’nt seem to Care that we’re not birds.Have’nt touched it but it’s sitting inside a trash can on the back porch for it’s own safety at the moment chirping loudly.

Locals dont always have to donate money they can give old towels, blankets and even their woodworking skills for making possum boxes. Brigette says people can also help by writing letters to the government and councils in relation to animal welfare and animal environment issues or by planting native (instead of exotic) trees in their garden to attract native animals, providing them with food and housing.

O’.M’.G’…… Absolutely amazing video, that Baby trusts that boy. A few years ago one of my neighbor kids was playing with a BB gun in his backyard, and accidently shot a grown female Annas hummingbird.

He immediately brought her to me (being the block Mom and all knowing neighborhood animal lady), so I brought them both inside and inspected her. The BB had removed the skin from the back of her head, she was dazed, but still alive. While tending to her wound, I took the opportunity to make the boy feel absolutely terrible about what he had done by explaining to him that all creatures are special and amazing little miracles, and asked him to close his eyes and imagine the skin being removed from the back of his head. Poor kid started to cry, which I was happy to see becasue it meant that he was feeling compassion for the tiny bird. I kept the bird over night in a basket with Neosporin on her wound, and the following day she tried to fly out my window, so I took her outside and she flew off. When he came by that day I told him she had flown away and would be alright, and his whole face lit up like a Christmas tree. He got rid of the BB gun, and never did anything like that again. I saw her several times after that humming around my yard and feeding from my flowers, and I got to see her babies that she raised in my avocado tree. Sometimes ya just hafta instill compassion in kids, even if they arent yours.